{"id":344838,"date":"2026-03-24T05:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/344838\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:50:11","slug":"listen-to-the-country-online-molesworth-stations-future-with-former-manager-jim-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/344838\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to The Country online: Molesworth Station\u2019s future with former manager Jim Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Jim Ward, the former manager of New Zealand\u2019s largest farm, Molesworth Station, to find out why he\u2019s been involved in a proposal to see it run as a not-for-profit with heritage status.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\">Supporters of a proposal to make Molesworth a \u201cstation for the nation\u201d have taken it a step further by meeting the Department of Conservation\u2019s March 20 deadline for expressions of interest in the station\u2019s lease. <\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\">Former Molesworth Station manager Jim Ward is spearheading a proposal to have it run by a charitable trust as a self-funding farm operation, preserving the station\u2019s high-value natural and historical assets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Jim Ward, the former manager of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1558,12024,2841,156,3233,1866,2740,3273,8993,5420,12022,2205,9519,16081,19136,12018,12023,93,183790,157,111,139,73931,69,1642,17159,4965,1305,13655,12418,44093,223,61,1865,19791,102,2963],"class_list":["post-344838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-been","tag-catches","tag-country","tag-entertainment","tag-farm","tag-find","tag-former","tag-future","tag-heritage","tag-hes","tag-host","tag-involved","tag-jamie","tag-jim","tag-largest","tag-listen","tag-mackay","tag-manager","tag-molesworth","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-notforprofit","tag-nz","tag-online","tag-proposal","tag-radio","tag-show","tag-station","tag-stations","tag-status","tag-the","tag-to","tag-today","tag-ward","tag-with","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}